(Good) Blue Eye Samurai

Series in one sentence:
Blue Eye Mulan.

Series in more sentences:
Born from a Japanese mother and a British father in a time period that considers half-breeds a disgrace, Mizu grows up with hatred in her heart towards everyone who wronged her, but primarily the white man she's never met and has her awful existence to thank for.
Disguised as a man to ensure full freedom in her male-dominated homeland, she sets out to find all foreigners known to have been in the country around the time of her conception -and kill them.

A praised show, indeed a good show, but the start really made me worry I was going to have to listen to the most awkward dialogue only AI could come up with. The intro just didn't sound right, like it was mistranslated Japanese.
Moments like these kept happening, which made it all the more weird the show had good dialogue in there as well.

Even so, nothing beats the overabundance of nudity. Were these and the sex scenes necessary. I thank the creators very much for preventing me from ever showing off Blue Eye Samurai to my friends and family. Not watching that shit with my little brother and sister.
A pet peeve to some, but I never believed nudity or intercourse to have value in a story. Seldom. Why would you bother, when you have the art of insinuation? You can tell me without showing me. The first sex scene alone is the most embarrassing shit ever: You have these two love birds, engaging in literal seconds of intercourse, while the girl is monologuing to the guy about how cool his revenge quest will be -basically writing a fanfiction while riding dick- and after they're done, they don't even look happy. This moment didn't just give me secondhand embarrassment, but thirdhand as well. And every spicy scene that features a prostitute is literal aids and added less than zero value to the overall story.

The villain wasn't doing it for me, either. A good villain resonates with people in some way, but this guy was a theatrically psychopathic non-human. It was hard to take anything he said seriously, especially when he spouts sentences along the lines of "We British know how to destroy!" and other comments that convey how superiorly evil white people are. Like what. Did 1600s Europeans truly talk like that, because this dialogue and the guy himself seem like a caricature of what extreme leftist think white people believe and act like. That's the best way I can describe him. Needlessly foul creature of a man.
..And also, why is he -an overweight middle-aged man who has been locked up in a building for so many years- faster and stronger than two highly trained fighters? He was kicking Mizu's ass, crazy..

Speaking of, Mizu is cool as shit. Her quest is over the top and misguided, but she's been abused by everyone and hates who she sees in the mirror, so of course she'll lash out and do something as pointless as "kill all foreigners". If they'd told her 40.000 European men were walking Japan at her time of birth, opposed to the just convenient 4, she would've hunted all of them down as well, no sweat. She has nothing else in her life to look forward to than the demise of a stranger she made her scapegoat. I don't recall the story claiming she was born from molestation, so I wonder if there's going to be a plot twist that makes at least one of these sought-after British men not act like Satan reborn.

So, yes, I have my criticisms, I'm begging the writers to insert a sliver of realism in their villains and skip the pointless nudity in future episodes, but they won't, and regardless, I'll be there for season 2.
The animation and art style are a treat, and the general plot not anything complicated, but Blue Eye Samurai did its best to introduce exciting turns, reveals, and fightings scenes to make it more than your standard revenge action series.